Its raining on the Isle of Wight and with nothing better to do in Chez Web Ferret this weekend than go online, what did I spy?  The Bestival rumour mill is running at full throttle: Grace Jones appears to be on the Island and Amy Winehouse is staying in Ventnor and not forgetting the heavy rain may cause bestival closure …

Read all about it here click on the bold links below:

Grace jones is on the wight. E… 

Amy winehouse staying in Ventn… Details of other special guests coming up.

Heavy rain may cause bestival … Heavy rain may cause bestival closure.

As the Bestival forum says’  it could just be the rumour mill  working overtime, click to reveal source.

17:30 Update by the Island Pulse  Web Ferret: Oh! the penny has finally dropped in the unconfirmed speculation stakes: Did not Blogs Da Bank, Rob da Bank’s Bestival Blog let slip ‘On Lethal Drizzle’  

Six bottles of Cristal champagne for starters and a shedload of vehicles of all varieties on standby for her.

And sources from the Sydney Herald reported:

Like a giant panther hungry for a kill, Grace Jones ……. surrounded by ice buckets of Cristal champagne…

I myself would have liked to see Dame Shirley Bassey  trot out in her diamante wellies as she did at Glastonbury last year.

Although Glastonbury was arguably her greatest departure to date, she laughed off reports that she had expected five-star treatment when all around her were knee-deep in mud.

“I didn’t ask for a red carpet; they put it down and so I walked on it. They said I demanded 20 bottles of pink Cristal champagne.

Actually, they gave me one bottle and two I brought along myself. I don’t have time to demand anything. I’m too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.” 

Oh well purely my own  speculation and I expect the anticipation of just who is to be a special guest will all be revealed in the fullness of time. 

22:10 Update: Bestival Mud, Glorious Mud: Bestival Mud Fest: Topping in the Afternoon live from Bestival 2008: topping107 IW Radio website: